Cyber Ethics on Trail Activity
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Activity # 2 Cyber Ethics on Trial Rationale This activity is designed to help teach students the school’s copyright policy in a creative and innovative way. It gives students a look at what can happen if someone decides to violate copyright policies. Activity Description The teacher should use the Case Scenario Worksheet to cut out the following cases: Sony vs. Mike in the “The Case of the Burning CD,” Katie vs. Mrs. Cyber Ethics in “The Case of the Highlighted Report,” Sally Entrepreneur vs. Steven Stealsburg in “The Case of the Small Fee,” and Suzie Talent vs. The Board of Education in “The Case of the No Talent, Talent Show.” The teacher should ask the students to number off from one to four. This will allow four small groups to be formed. Each group should be given a slip of paper representing different cases of copyright violations. Once students receive their scenario, they are to develop a five-minute case defending the coyright holders. They groups will have fifteen minutes to prepare, then they will be asked to present their case. Following each group’s presentation, the other students will serve as the jury, voting whether or not the case has been proven.
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Lessons on cyber ethics can include a wide variety of topics, ranging from issues of legality to questions of courtesy. For instance, students should be exposed to lessons that emphasize consequences of copyright, plagiarism and hacking violations online. Through proper activity design and instruction, students will learn to understand that if too many unauthorized games are downloaded to the network or software changes are made without permission, the system may be overwhelmed. As a result, the network and Internet services may not be available for them to use for research the following day. On the same note, students may be more likely to follow copyright guidelines and regulations if they too have spent time creating original work for the Internet. Through appropriately designed lessons or activities, teachers can illustrate how easily someone is able to violate another’s work. Educators agree teachers should make the online and offline worlds appear seamless if these types of lessons are to be effective. The most important factor in developing cyber ethic lessons is to teach students that the rules and laws on the Internet are the same as rules in the classroom and laws in society.
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Activity # 2 Cyber Ethics on Trial
Rationale
This activity is designed to help teach students the school’s copyright policy in a creative and innovative
way. It gives students a look at what can happen if someone decides to violate copyright policies.
Activity Description
The teacher should use the Case Scenario Worksheet to cut out the following cases: Sony vs. Mike in the
“The Case of the Burning CD,” Katie vs. Mrs. Cyber Ethics in “The Case of the Highlighted Report,”
Sally Entrepreneur vs. Steven Stealsburg in “The Case of the Small Fee,” and Suzie Talent vs. The Board
of Education in “The Case of the No Talent, Talent Show.”
The teacher should ask the students to number off from one to four. This will allow four small groups to
be formed. Each group should be given a slip of paper representing different cases of copyright
violations.
Once students receive their scenario, they are to develop a five-minute case defending the coyright
holders. They groups will have fifteen minutes to prepare, then they will be asked to present their case.
Following each group’s presentation, the other students will serve as the jury, voting whether or not the
case has been proven.
CYBER ETHICS ON TRIAL ACTIVITY SCRIPT UNIT
TITLE
Cyber Ethics on Trial ACTIVITY
OBJECTIVES To teach the importance of copyright laws as students use case seniors to come to the aide of possible violations. TIME
One Class Period MATERIALS
• School’s Copyright Policy • Case Scenario Worksheet
GROUPING Small Group
PROCEDURE Teachers should introduce the lesson by asking the following question:
What type of material can be copyrighted?
Desired Student Response:
Books, Music, Software
1. Cut out the following topics and present the topic to the group assigned. • Case Scenario No. 1: Sony vs. Mike in the “The Case of the Burning CD” • Case Scenario No. 2: Katie vs. Mrs. Cyber Ethics in “The Case of the Highlighted Report” • Case Scenario No. 3: Sally Entrepreneur vs. Steven Stealsburg in “The Case of the Small Fee” • Case Scenario No. 4: Suzie Talent vs. The Board of Education in “The Case of the No Talent,
Talent Show” 2. Students should number off from one to three or one to six if the class is large. This will allow three or
six small groups to be formed. Each group should be given a slip of paper representing different cases
of copyright violations. See the activity materials page for these cases.
3. Once students receive their scenario, they are to develop a case defending the coyright holders. Groups are to be given the following guidelines before they begin the activity.
• The case should not be any longer than five minutes per group. • Each group has fifteen minutes prepare the case. • The students will evaluate each other’s ability to defend the copyright holders in a courtroom
jury style.
EVALUATION Was the activity/discussion interesting to you? ______ Yes _____ No Was the activity/discussion interesting to students? ______ Yes _____ No Did you need additional information for this activity? ______ Yes _____ No Comments:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher’s Signature __________________________________________________________________ Source: Author
Case Scenario Group Worksheet CYBER ETHICS ON TRIAL
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Group Instructions for this Activity Your group is to develop a case for defending the copyright holder. Please do not make your case
presentation more than five minutes in length. Your group has 15 minutes to prepare your case. You will
be assessed on your group’s ability to defend the copyright holder in a courtroom setting. Your fellow
classmates will be the judge. Use your School Copyright Policy as a guide for this activity.
Case Scenario No. 1: Sony vs. Mike in the “The Case of the Burning CD” Mike’s best friend Becky purchases the most recent version of their favorite computer game. After Mike
loads the game to his computer, Becky decides she would like to have the game also. Mike then uses his
CD burner to make a copy for Becky to take home and load on her computer. Two days later, Becky’s
father brings to the house as a dinner guest a representative from the Sony Corporation. The
representative asks to use the family’s computer to check his e-mail. He then notices a CD setting next to
the computer. The CD includes a homemade label. As he checks for his e-mail, he also checks the
program files on the computer and notices the family has Sony’s top-selling game illegally downloaded
on their computer. The Sony representative inquires about the illegal copying of the software and decides
to file suit against Mike. As the company’s cyber attorney, make a case against Mike’s family for making
a duplicate copy of Sony’s top game.
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case scenario worksheet continued ===================================================================== Group Instructions for this Activity Your group is to develop a case for defending the copyright holder. Please do not make your case
presentation more than five minutes in length. Your group has 15 minutes to prepare your case. You will
be assessed on your group’s ability to defend the copyright holder in a courtroom setting. Your fellow
classmates will be the judge. Use your School Copyright Policy as a guide for this activity.
Case Scenario No. 2: Katie vs. Mrs. Cyber Ethics in “The Case of the Highlighted Report” Katie is assigned an English report on “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” She is given two weeks to
complete this report along with a list of resources that she can locate in the library. Katie waits eight days
before she goes to the library to check out the suggested list of materials. She find that the resources are
no longer available. Katie, in a panic, turns to the only resource that she knows – the Internet. She does a
power search on Mark Twain and “Huck Finn” and finds multiple resources. She bookmarks the sites for
later use. One day prior to the report’s due date, Katie uses her bookmarks to return to the sites and cuts
and pastes her entire report from various sources on the Internet. Katie turns in her report with her name
typed at the top in bold print letters as the author of the report. On the same day, her English teacher, Mrs.
Cyber Ethics, using technology as a legal and ethical resource for instruction, pulls up several of the sites
that Katie has used for her report. After class, Katie confesses to using the sites and forgetting to give
proper credit. Mrs. Cyber Ethics decision was to fail Katie on the Mark Twain report. You are Mrs. Cyber
Ethics cyber attorney. Make an argument for the teacher’s decision.
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case scenario worksheet continued ====================================================================
Group Instructions for this Activity Your group is to develop a case for defending the copyright holder. Please do not make your case
presentation more than five minutes in length. Your group has 15 minutes to prepare your case. You will
be assessed on your group’s ability to defend the copyright holder in a courtroom setting. Your fellow
classmates will be the judge. Use your School Copyright Policy as a guide for this activity.
Case Scenario No. 3: Sally Entrepreneur vs. Steven Stealsburg in “The Case of the Small Fee.”
Sally lives in Hollywood, California and attends a prominent high school there. Sally and her friends have
been trying to rent a popular movie for weeks but could not yet find it in the video stores. Sally tells her
friends she has an original copy of this video, and she will make duplicates for them for a small fee. She
takes several orders, then makes 20 copies of this video. She brings them to school the following day and
sells them to her friends. While Sally was selling the video, Steven Stealsburg’s daughter witnessed the
transaction. She then went home and told her director father that someone at school was illegally selling
copies of his Academy Award-winning hit. The next day Steven Stealsburg’s attorney contacts the school
and notifies them that they are being sued for the sale and distribution of copyrighted materials. You are
the Mr. Stealburg’s cyber attorney. Make a case against Sally’s actions.
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Group Instructions for this Activity Your group is to develop a case for defending the copyright holder. Please do not make your case
presentation more than five minutes in length. Your group has 15 minutes to prepare your case. You will
be assessed on your group’s ability to defend the copyright holder in a courtroom setting. Your fellow
classmates will be the judge. Use your School Copyright Policy as a guide for this activity.
Case Scenario No. 4: Suzie Talent vs. The Board of Education in “The Case of the No Talent,
Talent Show.”
Miss Suzie Talent, Student Council sponsor, makes an announcement to the local high school that try-
outs for the upcoming No Talent, Talent Show. After tryouts, twenty students are selected to perform.
One student who was not selected files a complaint at the Board of Education office that ten of the
students selected will be using copyrighted materials without permission to perform that music in front of
a live audience. The school board meets and decides that only students who have written their own work
or sought permission to use copyrighted work can participate in the talent show. Suzie Talent and parents
of the ten eliminated students decide to challenge the board’s decision. You are a cyber attorney for the
board. Defend the board’s decision.
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